About

Yusuke Goutsu is a researcher specializing in human motion recognition, gesture analysis, and human-robot interaction, with an emerging focus on egocentric vision and affordance understanding. His foundational work centers on skeleton-based motion recognition, where he pioneered approaches leveraging local body part features, Inverse Kinematics-derived joint relationships, and discriminative body part modeling to classify complex daily human motions. His 2015 contributions introduced multiple kernel learning of Fisher Vectors for skeleton-based systems and a hybrid generative-discriminative gesture recognition framework, establishing robust methodologies that collectively garnered over 24 citations. Alongside this, his multi-modal gesture recognition work demonstrated the value of integrating motion, audio, and video streams for improved accuracy. His 2017 research extended motion classification to multi-class scenarios with natural language sentence descriptions, bridging motion analysis and language generation — a direction he had explored as early as 2013 through large-scale N-gram-based motion-to-sentence systems. More recently, his 2023 work on fine-grained affordance annotation for egocentric hand-object interaction videos, already accumulating 12 citations, signals a significant pivot toward action anticipation and robot imitation learning, highlighting his continued relevance at the intersection of computer vision and intelligent robotics.

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H-Index
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Total Citations
10
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Motion Recognition Employing Multiple Kernel Learning of Fisher Vectors Using Local Skeleton Features
13 citations · 2015
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2015 (3 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 11
🏛 Institutions: The University of Tokyo, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology

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